Training Partners Got Me to an Olympic Trials Qualifier. Here’s How They Can Help You

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I learned by running with the group was that the brain lies. All of us have good days and bad, and it sucks to be the one having the bad day—it’s demoralizing to be missing the workout paces and wanting to quit.

But when you train with the same crew over and over, you begin to recognize that those things your brain tries to tell you—you’re the “slowest in the group,” you’ll “never catch up,” other runners are “better than you”—just aren’t true. Some days you’ll be leading the pack, and some days you’ll get dropped. After you see it happen to everyone, you learn to take your days, both good and bad, more in stride.

And I did. I finished the Philadelphia Marathon in 2:44:11—a time that even five years ago I never would have dreamed possible.Allison Goldstein is a freelance writer and editor who is endlessly fascinated by the scientific “why” of things.

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